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_id: '10068'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Currently, cities are confronting a multitude of challenges including climate
    change, demographic change, urbanization and land subsidence. Resulting flooding,
    droughts and other disturbances could lead to water shortages, severe interruptions,
    hydraulic problems or underutilization of water infrastructure systems. One way
    that cities can become more resilient is by diversifying their water resources
    and reducing their dependency on central water infrastructures. Water infrastructure
    systems consisting of decentral or semi-central partial systems would be more
    resilient because a failure in these systems would only affect a small part of
    the urban area. Instead of an incremental improvement of the water infrastructure,
    there is a need for system innovations that will allow an adaptive development
    to changing conditions and which will ensure that future sustainability challenges
    are met. However, moving towards more resilient water technologies is seen as
    controversial for built-up areas. To answer the question if a transformation to
    a more resilient water infrastructure in built-up areas is feasible (technically
    and economically), a balancing and assessment of the corresponding effects have
    been done by way of comparing a “transformation” scenario with a reference scenario
    “business as usual”. If one takes a long-term period of observation (70 years),
    the costs balance of the scenarios “reference” and “transformation” both turn
    out to be on a comparative level. By contrast, the consumption of environmental
    resources in the scenario “transformation” is almost twice as low as in the “reference”.
author:
- first_name: Engelbert
  full_name: Schramm, Engelbert
  last_name: Schramm
- first_name: Jörg
  full_name: Felmeden, Jörg
  id: '81335'
  last_name: Felmeden
citation:
  ama: 'Schramm E, Felmeden J. Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures. In: Zimmermann
    KO, ed. <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
    of the Global Forum 2011 </i>. Vol 2. Local sustainability. Springer Dordrecht;
    2012:177-186. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>'
  apa: 'Schramm, E., &#38; Felmeden, J. (2012). Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures.
    In K. O. Zimmermann (Ed.), <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate
    Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 </i> (Vol. 2, pp. 177–186). Springer
    Dordrecht. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>'
  bjps: '<b>Schramm E and Felmeden J</b> (2012) Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures.
    In Zimmermann KO (ed.), <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate
    Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, vol. 2. Dordrecht: Springer
    Dordrecht, pp. 177–186.'
  chicago: 'Schramm, Engelbert, and Jörg Felmeden. “Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures.”
    In <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
    of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, edited by Karl Otto Zimmermann, 2:177–86. Local
    Sustainability. Dordrecht: Springer Dordrecht, 2012. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>.'
  chicago-de: 'Schramm, Engelbert und Jörg Felmeden. 2012. Towards More Resilient
    Water Infrastructures. In: <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate
    Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, hg. von Karl Otto Zimmermann,
    2:177–186. Local sustainability. Dordrecht: Springer Dordrecht. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>,
    .'
  din1505-2-1: '<span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Schramm, Engelbert</span> ;
    <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Felmeden, Jörg</span>: Towards More Resilient
    Water Infrastructures. In: <span style="font-variant:small-caps;">Zimmermann,
    K. O.</span> (Hrsg.): <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate
    Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, <i>Local sustainability</i>.
    Bd. 2. Dordrecht : Springer Dordrecht, 2012, S. 177–186'
  havard: 'E. Schramm, J. Felmeden, Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures,
    in: K.O. Zimmermann (Ed.), Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate
    Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 , Springer Dordrecht, Dordrecht,
    2012: pp. 177–186.'
  ieee: 'E. Schramm and J. Felmeden, “Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures,”
    in <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
    of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, vol. 2, K. O. Zimmermann, Ed. Dordrecht: Springer
    Dordrecht, 2012, pp. 177–186. doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>.'
  mla: 'Schramm, Engelbert, and Jörg Felmeden. “Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures.”
    <i>Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
    of the Global Forum 2011 </i>, edited by Karl Otto Zimmermann, vol. 2, Springer
    Dordrecht, 2012, pp. 177–86, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19</a>.'
  short: 'E. Schramm, J. Felmeden, in: K.O. Zimmermann (Ed.), Resilient Cities 2 :
    Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011
    , Springer Dordrecht, Dordrecht, 2012, pp. 177–186.'
  ufg: '<b>Schramm, Engelbert/Felmeden, Jörg</b>: Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures,
    in: <i>Zimmermann, Karl Otto (Hg.)</i>: Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation
    to Climate Change – Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 , Bd. 2, Dordrecht 2012
    (Local sustainability),  S. 177–186.'
  van: 'Schramm E, Felmeden J. Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures. In: Zimmermann
    KO, editor. Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
    of the Global Forum 2011 . Dordrecht: Springer Dordrecht; 2012. p. 177–86. (Local
    sustainability; vol. 2).'
conference:
  end_date: 2011-06-05
  location: Bonn
  name: 'Proceedings of the Global Forum 2011 '
  start_date: 2011-06-03
date_created: 2023-06-30T06:30:30Z
date_updated: 2023-07-05T14:53:26Z
department:
- _id: DEP3021
doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4223-9_19
editor:
- first_name: Karl Otto
  full_name: Zimmermann, Karl Otto
  last_name: Zimmermann
extern: '1'
intvolume: '         2'
keyword:
- Climate change
- Eco-efficiency analysis
- System innovations
- Vulnerability
- Water infrastructure
language:
- iso: eng
page: 177–186
place: Dordrecht
publication: 'Resilient Cities 2 : Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change – Proceedings
  of the Global Forum 2011 '
publication_identifier:
  eisbn:
  - '978-94-007-4223-9 '
  eissn:
  - '2211-2790 '
  isbn:
  - 978-94-007-9776-5
  - 978-94-007-4222-2
  issn:
  - '2211-2782 '
publication_status: published
publisher: Springer Dordrecht
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: confirmation
    url: https://www.springer.com/us/book/9789400742222
series_title: Local sustainability
status: public
title: Towards More Resilient Water Infrastructures
type: book_chapter
user_id: '83781'
volume: 2
year: '2012'
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